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China announces rules to reduce spending on video games (www.reuters.com)
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"Online games will now be banned from giving players rewards if they log in every day, if they spend on the game for the first time or if they spend several times on the game consecutively. All are common incentive mechanisms in online games."

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[-] Kwakigra@beehaw.org 23 points 11 months ago

Remember kids, almost all freemium games make their money through manipulating your animal impulses to make you spend money on essentially nothing which you wouldn't rationally want to spend. Disarming this particular skinner box seems like a positive direction.

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